Rachel Halliburton, Evening Standard Tue, 1999-11-30 00:00

Their scenes provide potent interludes to an evening haunted by an atmosphere of paranoid hysteria, which taps into 21st century fears as effectively as it catered to the superstitious whims of James I. Directors Jack Shepherd and Mehmet Ergen have converted the Arcola into a carefully nuanced chamber of horrors, where the cavernous design, dramatically varied lighting and rumbling soundtrack all provide a fertile backdrop for the nightmares - real and imagined - that erupt from Macbeth's ''heat-oppressed brain''.